At least nine people have been killed and 14 others wounded in heavy shelling in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, according to a human rights group.

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The brother of a convicted British drug smuggler facing imminent execution in China has pleaded for authorities to show compassion amid concerns over the man’s mental health at the time of his arrest.

Pakistan denied Wednesday that it is harboring a Sunni rebel leader accused of orchestrating a suicide attack in neighboring Iran.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday called for an investigation into the alleged use of fraudulent British passports by some of the suspects in the slaying of a top Hamas official in Dubai last month.

England striker Wayne Rooney is a “thrilled” father for the first time after his wife Coleen gave birth to a baby boy in a Liverpool hospital on Monday afternoon.

The Spanish government will send up to 511 more troops to Afghanistan for the NATO-led security force, pending approval from parliament, the Defense Ministry said Friday.

An explosion late Friday at a nightclub in central Russia has killed at least 15 people and injured 60 others, state-run media reported.

Philippine authorities raise the alert status of the country’s most active volcano to level 4 and set up an extended danger zone around it, saying an eruption is imminent.

A blast targeting a bus filled with Shiite religious observers in Karachi killed at least 12 people and another explosion in front of a hospital where attack victims were being treated killed six more, the government said.

A U.S. grand jury indicted four people, including two Chicagoans, for alleged roles in plots against a Danish newspaper and the November 2008 terrorism attack in Mumbai, India, pictured.

An explosion rocked Peshawar on Saturday, killing five people and wounding eight, authorities said.

A report is due out Thursday on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland, focusing on how those in the Dublin Archdiocese responded to years of complaints.

Thirty people are killed and more than 50 others are wounded in a suicide blast targeting a Shiite procession in Pakistan’s financial capital of Karachi, officials say.

An Italian jury convicts U.S. student Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the stabbing death of British exchange student Meredith Kercher.

A Nigerian man who sang in a Vatican choir arranged gay liaisons for an Italian government official who served in the unpaid role of papal usher, according to transcripts of wiretaps collected by Italian authorities.